Posts Tagged ‘ministry’
CNLP 380: Beth Moore on How to Handle the Train Wreck of Social Media, How She Handles Her Critics and How to Stay Resilient Over the Long Run
Beth Moore explains how she stays engaged on social media despite the controversies and challenges she gets, how she handles her critics, and shares some of the back story of her life and leadership and how she’s staying resilient over the long run. Welcome to Episode 380 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes…
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The Western Church Needs A New Evangelism Strategy: 5 Promising Options
This post is written by Dillon Smith, a Gen Z team member at Carey Nieuwhof Communications. By Dillon Smith Even before the pandemic struck, the western church has been filling fewer and fewer stadiums over the last few decades. As Gordon Macdonald talked about in this interview, the days of Billy Graham’s evangelistic crusades where he…
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CNLP 374: Anne Graham Lotz on Growing Up in Billy Graham’s Home, How Culture is Changing, and Why Many Leaders Struggle with Prayer
Anne Graham Lotz talks about growing up in Billy and Ruth Graham’s home, what she learned from her father and mother, how culture and communication has changed, and about how she’s struggled in her own prayer life and how she developed strategies to deepen her walk with God any leader can adapt. Welcome to Episode…
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Beyond Vanity Metrics and Algorithms: 5 Online Benchmarks Churches Should Start Measuring
How do you measure what happened at church last weekend? How do you know that you’re actually making progress? If the goal is to turn online views into real relationships and actual discipleship, any idea what to look for to know if that’s actually happening? The super-inflated (or super discouraging) numbers in your online channels…
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Now That You’re Online a Lot More: 5 Traps For Local Pastors In The Age of Social Media
So now that you’re online more than ever before, what’s happening? What’s at stake? The fact that eventually all churches will be open in person again (the majority are now as I’m writing this) doesn’t change the fact that your internet presence has changed forever. You can’t go back to the way things were, and…
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What Healthy Churches are Doing to Support Female Leaders During the Pandemic
Today’s post is written by Kadi Cole. Kadi is a top voice leading the church to better develop and support female leaders. She’s also the bestselling author of Developing Female Leaders and is the founder and CEO of Kadi Cole and Company. By Kadi Cole I have been so impressed with how pastors and churches are…
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CNLP 364: Nik Wallenda on What World Record Tightrope Walking Taught Him About How to Train in Adverse Conditions, Preparing for the Unexpected in Leadership, Overcoming Fear, and How to Revive a Dying Industry
Nik Wallenda has set numerous tightrope walking world records, including being the first man to cross Niagara Falls, and wirewalking across Times Square, the Grand Canyon and more. Nik talks about how to train for adverse conditions, responding to failure and constantly changing conditions, how to reposition your mission when your model breaks, and how…
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5 Addictions Pastors Need To Overcome (To Grow Their Church In the Future)
You’ve probably learned a lot about yourself in the last year. Crisis does that to you. Crisis isn’t just an accelerator, it’s a revealer, showing you some surprising things about yourself—some good, some not so good. Since COVID struck, church leaders have seen more than a few addictions, wants and preferences revealed. At this point,…
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The NEW Characteristics of Churches That Will Be In Decline Five Years From Now
As a leader, you’ve likely looked back at a decision another church or organization made and thought to yourself, “how could they not have seen how bad that decision was…I mean, didn’t anybody realize where that would take them?” And of course, the answer is no…they didn’t see it. Which is the point of this…
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7 Habits of Generation Z That Your Church Might Be Ignoring
This post is written by Dillon Smith, a Gen Z team member at Carey Nieuwhof Communications. There’s no doubt that Gen Z has some different habits than previous generations. Thanks to the internet and smartphones, the environment that we’ve grown up in is completely unique, and unlike any generation before. We spend more time online,…
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